Working together for learners’ sake
Knysna Montessori and Riverwood Primary schools have brought their sports players together to create a new team called Ramps (Riverwood and Montessori People’s Sport). The aim of this collaboration is to give their children an opportunity to play more sport.
It has enabled the two schools to enter teams into the various sporting code leagues, giving the students more playtime and more competitive sporting opportunities at a higher level. This is the second year that the two schools have worked well together and grown the Ramps teams.
In 2017 our Ramps junior cricket teams entered the Small Schools’ and Hot Dog Leagues. We were also able to enter the u13 B hockey league last year. The boys’ and girls’ teams did their respective schools proud. The boys impressed us by winning the B-league. The girls came third in the B league.
Riverwood is a small independent, coeducational pre- and primary school that has been in Knysna for over 40 years.
Knysna Montessori is a fully fledged preschool, junior school, middle and high school, established in 1997 and celebrating its 10th year of matric students this year.
Two schools working collaboratively to grow sport and striving to create opportunities for students to grow and challenge their sporting skills and abilities.
It is wonderful to observe the growth in stature of players who have been afforded the opportunities to extend and challenge their self-belief, due to this initiative.
The Ramps recently competed in the Backward Point Hockey Festivals. These boys’ and girls’ festivals have been running for many years under the guidance of Keith Cretchley and Robyn Paton, the ethos of which is aimed at team and spirit building. These festivals afford our local schools the opportunity to compete against other schools from the Western and Eastern Cape, as well as bringing many families to our beautiful Garden Route.
We envisage that the Ramps initiative will go from strength to strength. –